Note that as soon as the new processors become commercially available, we will be swapping out the current six-core Thuban for a new eight-core Zambezi chip.

Although the DDR3 kits are of disparate memory speeds, both were installed together and run at the lowest common denominator.

All six SATA devices were connected to the AMD SB950 supplied 6Gb/s ports.

Windows 7 64bit Home Premium was installed fresh to the 128Gb Crucial RealSSD, with the two 1Tb drives housing non-essential data and the two 320Gb drives in an existing AMD RAID1 mirror for more critical file storage.